Physical signatures of discontinuities of the time-dependent exchange-correlation potential

Details Physical signatures of discontinuities of the time-dependent exchange-correlation potential Physical signatures of discontinuities of the time-dependent exchange-correlation potential

2009-02-06

arxiv.org/abs/0902.1164v1

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 11, 4647 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

17 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1039/b902613d

The exact exchange-correlation (XC) potential in time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is known to develop steps and discontinuities upon change of the particle number in spatially confined regions or isolated subsystems. We demonstrate that the self-interaction corrected adiabatic local-density approximation for the XC potential has this property, using the example of electron loss of a model quantum well system. We then study the influence of the XC potential discontinuity in a real-time simulation of a dissociation process of an asymmetric double quantum well system, and show that it dramatically affects the population of the resulting isolated single quantum wells. This indicates the importance of a proper account of the discontinuities in TDDFT descriptions of ionization, dissociation or charge transfer processes.

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